50 Bible Verses about Tragedy

Another plague is there, which I have seen under the sun; namely, the ignorance that is commonly among princes:

There is yet a plague under the Sun, and it is a general thing among men:

and called unto the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, hast thou been so evil unto the widow with whom I sojourn, that thou hast slain her son?"

For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

Or those eighteen upon which the tower in Siloam fell and slew them: think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwell in Jerusalem?

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

The LORD preserveth thee from all evil; yea, it is the LORD that keepeth thy soul.

It is better to be sorry than to laugh, for when the countenance is heavy the heart is joyful.

There shall no misfortune happen unto the just; but the ungodly shall be filled with misery.

Forsomuch as a man should weary himself with wisdom, with understanding and opportunity, and yet be fain to leave his labours unto another, that never sweat for them. This is also a vain thing and a great misery.

When God giveth a man riches, goods and honour, so that he wanteth nothing of all that his heart can desire, and yet God giveth him not leave to enjoy the same, but another man spendeth them. This is a vain thing and a miserable plague.

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

Take your counsel together, yet must your counsel come to nought; go in hand withal, yet shall it not prosper. For God is with us.

And he stretched himself upon the lad three times, and called unto the LORD and said, "O LORD my God, let the lad's soul come into him again."

For man knoweth not his time, but like as the fish are taken with the angle and as the birds are caught with the snare: Even so are men taken in the perilous time, when it cometh suddenly upon them.

What imagine ye against the LORD? He makes an utter end: ye shall not be troubled twice.

which comforteth us in all our tribulation, insomuch that we are able to comfort them which are troubled, in whatsoever tribulation it be, with the same comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.

Rejoice not thou at the fall of thine enemy; and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth.

Thou needest not to be afraid of any sudden fear, neither for the violent rushing of the ungodly, when it cometh.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according to our wickedness.

This is a miserable plague, that he shall go away even as he came. What helpeth him then, that he hath labored in the wind?

But in the mean season the righteous perisheth, and no man regardeth it in his heart. Good godly people are taken away, and no man considereth it. Namely, that the righteous is conveyed away through the wicked,

It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.

applied my mind to seek out and search for the knowledge of all things that are done under heaven. Such travail and labor hath God given to the children of men, to exercise themselves therein.

But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.

If one of them fall, his companion helpeth him up again: But woe is him that is alone, for if he fall, he hath not another to help him up.

For none of us liveth his own servant: and also neither doth any of us die his own servant.

Nevertheless, though I am sometimes afraid, yet put I my trust in thee.

Turn you now to the stronghold, ye that be in prison, and long sore to be delivered: And this day I bring the word, that I will reward thee double again.

for which thing's sakes the wrath of God cometh on the children of unbelief.

And he went into his wife which conceived and bare him a son, and he called the name of it Beriah because it went evil with his household.

And this woman's child died in a night, for she had overlaid it.

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not to death.

Remember thy maker in thy youth, before the days of adversity come, and or the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, "I have no pleasure in them";

"Ah, my belly! Ah, my belly!" shalt thou cry, "how is my heart so sore?" My heart panteth within me, I cannot be still, for I have heard the crying of the trumpets, and peals of war.

Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?

Wherefore I will mourn and make lamentation, bare and naked will I go: I must mourn like the dragons, and take sorrow as the ostriches:

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it under her upon the rock, even from the beginning of harvest until rain dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to fall on them by day nor beasts of the field by night.

Therefore, behold, the LORD will smite thee with a mighty plague in thy folk, in thy children, in thy wives and in thy goods.

For there shall be judgment, merciless, to him that showeth no mercy, and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

For he doth not plague, and cast out the children of men from his heart.

For if by the sin of one, death reigned by the means of one, much more shall they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life by the means of one; that is to say, Jesus Christ.

And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter. And upon this rock, I will build my congregation: and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

I went out full: but the LORD hath brought me home empty. Why should ye then call me Naomi: seeing the LORD hath humbled me, and the Almighty hath brought me unto adversity?"

And David was in a shrewd strait: for the people intended to stone him because the hearts of the people were vexed for their sons and their daughters.

that thou shalt be clean beside thyself for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

And she named the child Ichabod saying, "Honour is departed from Israel" - Because the ark of God was taken, and her father-in-law and her husband were dead.